It was left on the platform which was set on fire or it was carried away and buried. ----- Original Message ----- From: JohnnyMikeCraven@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 11:39 PM To: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CHOCTAW-SE] Hopiah In a message dated 7/23/2002 10:16:29 AM Central Daylight Time, wood_owl@hotmail.com writes: > > >In a message dated 7/22/2002 10:21:09 AM Central Daylight Time, > >wood_owl@hotmail.com writes: > > > > > > > After a prescribed length of mourning (prescribed by > > > the medicince man or Ikbi), the bones were taken down and scraped clean > >by > > > the bone picker who had especially long nails for this purpose. The > >cleaned > > > bones were then bundled and placed in a common bone house George Ann, I guess this question will be repugnant to some on the list but I think it needs to be asked. What did the bone pickers do with the "pickings?" John Craven New Orleans ==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== Try Markie and Fay's CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST pages at http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/index.html for CHOCTAW Muster Rolls, Orphans lists, censuses, land records, etc.Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com